FIDO Contracts

FIDO Alliance (FIDO2)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring FIDO skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited FIDO over the 6 months leading up to 25 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 519 590 668
Rank change year-on-year +71 +78 +189
Contract jobs citing FIDO 11 2 21
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.036% 0.005% 0.038%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.16% 0.022% 0.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 2 16
10th Percentile £401 - £450
25th Percentile £402 - £556
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £603
Median % change year-on-year - -8.71% +15.42%
75th Percentile £568 - £623
90th Percentile £576 - £641
UK excluding London median daily rate £402 - -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

FIDO falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 6,892 9,286 12,642
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 22.84% 21.32% 22.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,698 6,381 9,209
10th Percentile £356 £350 £389
25th Percentile £413 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.37% -2.27% -
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £763 £788 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 135 279 152
10th Percentile £29.14 £22.40 £30.08
25th Percentile £38.52 £43.00 £50.00
Median hourly rate £55.00 £55.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year - -15.38% +28.40%
75th Percentile £68.00 £68.75 £75.00
90th Percentile £81.01 £74.44 £80.93
UK excluding London median hourly rate £62.50 £58.00 £64.50
% change year-on-year +7.76% -10.08% +17.27%

FIDO
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing FIDO as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for FIDO in the UK

FIDO
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing FIDO.

Daily rate trend for FIDO in the UK

FIDO
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing FIDO over the 6 months to 25 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for FIDO in the UK

FIDO
Top 7 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing FIDO within the UK over the 6 months to 25 June 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England - 10 £550 - 5
London - 6 £568 - 2
UK excluding London - 4 £402 - 3
East Midlands - 3 £402 - 1
Midlands - 3 £402 - 1
Work from Home +47 2 £402 -26.91% 4
East of England - 1 - -

FIDO
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Cloud Services
1 9 (81.82%) Azure
2 5 (45.45%) Entra ID
3 4 (36.36%) AWS
4 1 (9.09%) GCP
4 1 (9.09%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (9.09%) npm
4 1 (9.09%) Yarn
Development Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Babel
1 1 (9.09%) Git
1 1 (9.09%) webpack
General
1 4 (36.36%) French Language
2 3 (27.27%) Social Skills
3 2 (18.18%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (18.18%) Finance
4 1 (9.09%) Banking
4 1 (9.09%) Legal
Job Titles
1 3 (27.27%) Product Owner
2 1 (9.09%) Consultant
2 1 (9.09%) Java Engineer
2 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Consultant
2 1 (9.09%) Project Manager
2 1 (9.09%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (36.36%) OAuth
1 4 (36.36%) OpenID
2 3 (27.27%) SAML
2 3 (27.27%) WebAuthn
3 2 (18.18%) React
3 2 (18.18%) Spring
3 2 (18.18%) Spring Boot
4 1 (9.09%) CSS
4 1 (9.09%) CSS3
4 1 (9.09%) HTML
4 1 (9.09%) HTML5
4 1 (9.09%) Jest
4 1 (9.09%) JWT
4 1 (9.09%) OAuth2
4 1 (9.09%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 4 (36.36%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (90.91%) Identity Access Management
2 7 (63.64%) Multi-Factor Authentication
3 5 (45.45%) User Experience
4 4 (36.36%) Agile
4 4 (36.36%) Identity Management
4 4 (36.36%) Open Source
5 3 (27.27%) Backlog Management
5 3 (27.27%) Cybersecurity
5 3 (27.27%) Digital Identity
5 3 (27.27%) Fraud Detection
5 3 (27.27%) Migration
5 3 (27.27%) Risk Assessment
5 3 (27.27%) Risk Management
5 3 (27.27%) Scrum
5 3 (27.27%) Sprint Planning
5 3 (27.27%) Threat Modelling
5 3 (27.27%) Validation
6 2 (18.18%) Active Listening
6 2 (18.18%) Microservices
6 2 (18.18%) Product Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (18.18%) Java
2 1 (9.09%) JavaScript
2 1 (9.09%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (9.09%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (36.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 4 (36.36%) NIST
2 3 (27.27%) NIST 800
3 1 (9.09%) GDPR
3 1 (9.09%) HIPAA
System Software
1 5 (45.45%) Active Directory
2 4 (36.36%) OpenAM
Systems Management
1 6 (54.55%) Single Sign-On
2 5 (45.45%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 6 (54.55%) Microsoft
2 1 (9.09%) Okta